Linked by Tarun Agnani on Thu 5th Aug 2004 18:45 UTC
Yoper Linux V2 was released a few weeks ago (July 13, 2004). After reading the release announcement on Yoper's website, I decided I had to try it. Yoper claims that version V2 "is the fastest Out-of-the-Box Linux system in the World".
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-Performance patches for the kernel
-Compiled with i686 against latest gcc
-Stripping
-Prelinking
-Hdparm on install
Tell me what of those things aren't being used in normal distros.
Also, they FAKE:
http://www.yoper.com/comparison/desktopcomparison.html
Check that. Not only their benchmarks are biased (ie: "Font Rendering Excellent =3 Good =2 Fair=1" "Menu Intelligence Intuitive =3 Functional = 2 Unreasonable=1" - "measure" that?) but they fake the results.
Look at the "Timing Buffer Cache Reads". For yoper it's 1279.23. Other distros get, as maximum, 821.
Those are hdparm results. Reasons why that results is faked:
o The kernel actually auto-sets the DMA, etc if the driver is good. Chances are that the driver for that machine is broken, but these days fedora and others ALSO autosets the DMA.
Then, you've comparisons of "used user memory". Some of those distros use KDE, other use gnome. Suprprisingly, yoper uses less memory than debian, despite of the fact that debian doesn't installs Xfree or any graphical environment (and since they measure "installation time" and default configurations they must measure the _default_ installation not a tweaked one)
and heck, what parameters did they fgollow then they compare "graphical quality"? Damn, IT'S ALL THE SAME LINUX. So you use prelink? Congratulations, every distro on the planet has already released their versions with it.
Worthless.